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PET PARENTS: Check the labels of your pet food. If they contain any kind of PROTEIN, GLUTEN or CONCENTRATE in the form of wheat, rice, corn, soy, fish or vegetable USE YOUR JUDGEMENT IN FEEDING THAT FOOD TO YOUR PET RIGHT NOW.

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I started to do a preliminary search of pet foods that use RICE PROTEIN CONCENTRATE (RPC). I also did searches under RICE PROTEIN and RICE GLUTEN.

This is just a precaution until we know more, i’m not sure who supplies to the companies below but i’m doing this to be safe and to make sure the food I feed doesn’t include this filler. (As of Monday I am feeding Merrick to all my pets - they were on Natural Balance since January of this year).

I have found these companies so far that have/or continue to use RPC:

NUTRO - Natural Choice & Natural Care Adult CAT food (dry) ***Nutro has issued a statement that they have not purchased the RPC from Wilbur-Ellis***

PROPAC - Lamb Meal & Rice DOG food (dry) lists RICE GLUTEN as their 4th ingredient

BLUE BUFFALO (in their top 10 ingredients for dog food they list rice protein concentrate at #7… http://tinyurl.com/2zje3k)

SENSIBLE CHOICE - RICE GLUTEN appears in a lot of their products

CASTOR & POLLUX - Natural Ultramix Canine Weight Mgmnt.

WELLNESS - WellBars - 2 of the flavors contains RPC

LIVESMART - Weight Mgmnt. Chicken and Brown Rice formula

BLUE SPA SELECT - Hairball Control Cat (dry)

HILL’S - Rx food Z/D for cats (dry) RPC IS 1st INGREDIENT!! ***Hill's has issued a statement that their RPC is not from Wilbur-Ellis***

HILL’S - Rx food K/D for dogs (wet) RPC is 5th ingredient while something called “Maize starch” (hmmm) is the first ingredient ***Hill's statement***

Also, I’m noticing a lot of other concentrates and glutens in my searches.. i.e. Soy Protein Concentrate (Fancy Feast, Nature’s Recipe), Fish Protein Concentrate (Newman’s Own), Vegetable Protein Concentrate (Advance Pet Foods) and Corn Gluten (meal) - that one is in too many to name. The reason they piqued my interest in because a lot of these companies from China that made the wheat gluten also make these items above.

I hope they release the names of all companies who receive the RICE PROTEIN CONCENTRATE because many of them, just like Natural Balance, might not even be listing it on their ingredients!! It's time for the FDA to push that red button.